Maintenance Best Practice

Is it right for me?

MCP’s Maintenance Best Practice training course is designed for experienced engineering managers, maintenance managers, production managers, maintenance team leaders, planners, engineers and anyone with Asset Care responsibility. 

What will I learn?

• Maintenance Strategy: How to develop and align strategic planning and deployment

• Reliability Management: How to deliver optimum levels of performance

• Failure Analysis: Understand the Failure Process, Reliability Patterns and Root Causes of Failure

• Maintenance Approaches: Understand the different types of maintenance approaches and tasks and the application of Condition Monitoring technologies in modern maintenance

• Asset Criticality: The need for and uses of asset criticality along with the principles and stages of an asset criticality assessment

• FMECA and REM: How to develop maintenance plans to reduce the risk of failure

• Work Management: The importance and advantages of work planning in the context of effective reliability management

• Spare Parts and Materials Management: MROM (Maintenance Repair and Operating Materials) and how to improve cost and use, reducing inventory

• Cost Management and Reporting: How to analyse and manage cost and establish the value added by maintenance

  Information Systems including CMMS: The information systems required by maintenance and the importance of an effective CMMS to support delivery of World-Class performance

• Operator Asset Care (OAC): Understand the principles and the culture change required when implementing OAC

• Performance Reports and Continuous Improvement: Understand the use of metrics to monitor and manage performance and how this supports the Continuous Improvement (CI) process

• Training: How to assess training levels and requirements, identify the skills and competencies required for asset management tasks and delivery of training and skills development

• Continuous Improvement in maintenance: Develop a sustainable and embedded CI culture

• Working with Service Providers: Understand the different contract types, the contract review process and how to work with service providers to ensure best possible service delivery

• Safety Management: Understand the responsibilities of the maintenance/ engineering manager in the control of Health and Safety at work and the appropriate methods to implement a safety monitoring process on-site

The benefits?

Applying these principles will enable your organisation to:

• Identify good maintenance management practices and be confident to implement them in the workplace

• Reduce maintenance costs as a consequence of doing the ‘right’ things

• Improve equipment reliability

• Prepare an action plan to make maintenance improvements for your own organisation

• Identify the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that demonstrate performance and progress